Fuck Yeah, Book Arts! |
A blog for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts! Posts here will feature artist's books, illustration, book binding, typography, sketch-booking, scrap-booking, print-making, paper making, altered books, how to guides, zines, paper engineering and more! Feel free to submit your own work, thoughts around the subject, or even just inspiration new and old.
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Book that Came Across the Atlantic Ocean in 1847, along with my Ancestors (by Delina)
“Several of my ancestors practiced their handwriting, letters and numbers in this book of poetry written about 1827. The book is pretty crumbly, but I love having it. I can picture the long voyage with boredom setting in and not much to write on or write with, for that matter. My file name says clover, but I am thinking it is a shamrock pressed in the pages.
The book was given to me by an eccentric uncle of mine in about 1978 or so, when my children and I lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book face page said it was written at the Dawn of the Reformation in Ireland. I checked around, and was told that would be about 1827. So the book was about 150 years old when I got it, and about 20 years old when children wrote in it. There were two children who belonged to my direct lineage, and then five of their first cousins with them, who had been orphaned. Imagine taking 7 children across the ocean on about a 3 month voyage. My direct ancestors are the couple that brought the 7 children over from Ireland, via Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and then up the Mississippi River to the area of Rockport and Preemption, Mercer County, Illinois, USA.. They were very brave or very desperate or both.”
That is indeed a shamrock, the symbol of Ireland :)
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NotesHandmade Upcycled Sketchbooks by Elva Carri
“At Old Book Hides, I make spiral-bound notebooks and sketchbooks out of old hardbacks. I love books, although I was never a great reader. Now I get to go secondhand book shopping all the time, and judge them by their beautiful covers. In case you’re worried, the innards that contain the stories, information and pictures, are kept safely to be used again in future projects. Additionally, I can also custom make them if you find your own cover, and when you run out of pages, I even provide a refill service.”
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NotesAnatomical Flap-Up Illustrations from 1901 Adapted as Animated GIFs
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Notes‘Le rêve’ by Émile Zola; illustrations by Carlos Schwabe and L. Métivet. Published 1893 by E. Flammarion.
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NotesBookbinder Heels (by Anthropologie)
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DIY Vintage-Style Book Dust Covers (by designsponge)
Looking at this picture, can you tell which of these books are actually hardbound? I’m not super fussy over the books on my shelves, but I will admit that sometimes a really garish or unattractive book spine will jump out from the bunch and irritate me every time I walk by. I don’t think I would ever take the leap to cover all of my books, but I really like the idea of using these nifty deceptive hardbound dustcovers by Alex Cobbe to gussy up the real eyesores in my collection.
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A French royal bookbinding (for queen Maria de’ Medici), embroidered silk, 1629
